Christine

“It isn't just the best things that come to an end, but also the worst.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

“Pain, there was so much pain everywhere and in everyone. The only difference was between those who managed to hide it and those who no longer could.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“I still can't help but wonder, do our lives truly hold no meaning? Even if you try desperately to find it, to contrive some kind of meaning, is it true that what's not there isn't there? Does life leave only misery behind? Could the fact that we're alive—the fact that we're in this life where joy and terror and peace and danger mingle—couldn't that itself be the meaning of life?”
― Kwon Yeo-Sun, Lemon

“You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees